A handful of new studies moves the needle toward a consensus on the long-disputed question of whether insect wings evolved from legs or from the body wall, but the devil is in the details. Jef Akst ...

Some insects are downright scary when you get a close look at them, but that's not the case when you look at butterfly wings ...

The species, dubbed the "bone collector," belongs to an ancient lineage of moths older than the Hawaiian island of Oahu, ...

The evolution of insect-eating birds may have spurred rapid changes in the flight ability of ancient cicadas, according to ...

Newly described bone collector caterpillars build a silken case around their bodies and adorn it with dead insect body parts ...

The evolutionary origins of insect wings have been hotly debated: did they arise from dorsal body wall tissues or leg-related tissues? Researchers at Miami University resolved the debate by ...

Working in northeastern China in a fossil-rich region called the Jiulongshan Formation, Beijing-based paleontologists discovered an exquisite set of insect wings preserved in stone. Microscopic ...